Free Fight in Parliament
SOCIALISTS PUNCH MINISTER
Belgian Government Prohibits Labour Demonstration
(United Pzeee Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.)
LONDON, .Feb. 20,
The Belgian Government’s decision to prohibit a big Labour demonstration planned for February 24 led to a free fight in the Parliament, says the News-Chronicle’s Brussels correspondent. Socialist deputies rushed and punched M. Francois Bovesse, Minister of Finance, in the face. Ten ushers leaped to the rescue and the whole House immediately joined in one of the biggest uproars the Belgian Parliament has ever known.
Mr Vandervelde, the Socialist Party leader, declared that the prohibition amounted to a provocation of the working class. M. Theunis, the Prime Minister, defended the Government’s action on the ground that the Socialist Press and Socialist speakers had given the proposed demonstration an insurrectionary note. He reproached M. Vandervelde tor using two languages, one for Parliament and the other for meetings. Audiences ,he added, were being daily' incited against the Government. The Socialists are preparing a 24hours general strike as a protest against the prohibition of the demonstration.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 21 February 1935, Page 5
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174Free Fight in Parliament Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 21 February 1935, Page 5
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